9 million dental members , 8.
"First of all, I want to thank my TeamHealth colleagues for their
friendship and the working relationships developed over the past five years,"
said Bob Abramowski.
The iMedConsent advance directives module enables hospitals to
meet the requirements of this Act.

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His
last day with TeamHealth will be January 31, 2006. I thank him for all he has done for TeamHealth and
wish him well in his future endeavors," said Lynn Massingale, M.

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As one of the nation's leading providers of health care , dental,
pharmacy, group life, disability and long-term care benefits, Aetna
puts information and helpful resources to work for its approximately
13. Physicians can modify documents to reflect specific treatment
protocols, the literacy level of patients and the regulations specific
to the state in which they practice.

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The company's Maryland members have access to a contracted
network of 202 hospitals, 2,659 primary care physicians and 7,685
specialists. Abramowski has
agreed to make himself available to assist in transitioning his
responsibilities during a six-month transition period.

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Under the new contract, Aetna members will be able to access Shore
Health System facilities and doctors for covered in-patient and
out-patient services , at in-network rates. iMedConsent can function as a
stand-alone application or seamlessly interface with an institution's
EMR system.

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Aetna Shore Health System Sign New Agreement

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"Our goal is to offer members a wide range of
choices in hospitals and physicians, and we're pleased to announce
this new addition.7 million medical members , 11.

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When signed
by a competent patient, advance directives give direction to
healthcare providers about treatment choices in certain circumstances,
like when a patient is permanently unconscious . Hospital staff can also capture the patient's signature using
a digital signature pad, save the final advance directive in a
document imaging system and automatically add a progress note
indicating the presence of advance directives to the patient's chart
in an existing electronic medical record (EMR) system.

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, TeamHealth announced
today that Robert "Bob" Abramowski has resigned from his position as executive
vice president, finance and administration, to pursue other interests.

Dialog Medical Announces Availability of Advance Directives Module; New Module Gives Hospitals the Tools They Need to Provide Patients with Advance Directives

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, adding Shore's facilities and physicians to its
network on Maryland's Eastern Shore.com."
Dialog Medical's iMedConsent application is a comprehensive
informed consent and patient education solution that is used by
hospitals, surgery centers and physician practices to inform patients
about the clinical details, risks, benefits and alternatives
associated with thousands of medical treatments and procedures.

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"I am pleased to have served in the role of executive
vice president, finance and administration, during such an important period of
growth and success in TeamHealth 's history, and feel that I have accomplished
the objectives that I had established when I first joined TeamHealth.

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"Aetna is delighted to be able offer our members access to the
Shore Health System 's hospitals and other health care facilities on
the Eastern Shore," said Aetna's Bill Stout, head of network
operations for Maryland. The facilities covered
under this agreement are:

Memorial Hospital at Easton

Dorchester General Hospital

Shore Skilled Nursing Facility

Shore Radiology (three locations: Easton, Centreville, Denton)

Shore Laboratory

Shore Clinical Foundation (family practice physicians and
pediatricians)

Shore Rehabilitation Center (three locations: Easton,
Centreville, Denton)

Aetna provides health benefits to approximately 600,000 members in
Maryland.4 million
pharmacy members and 13.5 million group insurance members to help them
make better informed decisions about their health care and protect
their finances against health-related risks.aetna. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Instructive directives allow for preferences
regarding the provision of particular therapies or classes of
therapies.
"We are always looking for ways to help providers meet the
pressing needs of their patients," said Michael Burke, president of
Dialog Medical.

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About Dialog Medical

Dialog Medical is a leading provider of informed consent and
patient education systems for hospitals and physician practices.

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D. After opening the module in the
iMedConsent application, hospital staff can assist a patient with
assigning durable power of attorney, document the patient's wishes
relative to life-sustaining procedures under certain circumstances and
allow a patient to enter information about his or her additional
wishes.

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Mr . TeamHealth serves more than 490 hospital clients and their
affiliated clinics and surgical centers in 44 states with a team of
approximately 5,000 physicians, mid-level providers, and nurses. TeamHealth
provides comprehensive staffing and administrative services for emergency
medicine, hospital medicine , critical care, teleradiology, anesthesiology,
pediatrics, and other hospital-based clinical services .

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Situated on Maryland's Eastern Shore, these two hospitals affiliated
in 1996 to form Shore Health System, offering a broad scope of
physician specialties and additional off-site facilities .

TeamHealth Announces Resignation of Its Executive Vice President Finance and Administration

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ATLANTA----Dialog Medical, the
leading provider of informed consent and patient education systems for
hospitals and physician practices, today announced the addition of an
advance directives module to its iMedConsent application. Since December 1991, the Patient Self Determination Act has
required hospitals to inform patients about their right to participate
in healthcare decisions, including their right to have advance
directives.dialogmedical.

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----Aetna (NYSE: AET)
announced today that it has signed a new two-year agreement with Shore
Health System Inc .
"Bob's contributions to TeamHealth over the past five years have been
numerous and significant ."
David Jones, TeamHealth's chief financial officer, will assume
responsibility for TeamHealth 's finance and accounting functions, and Greg
Roth, TeamHealth president and chief operating officer , will assume
responsibility for TeamHealth's administrative functions.

Advance directives fall into two categories: proxy and
instructive.

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LINTHICUM, Md., FACEP ,
chairman and chief executive officer, TeamHealth. Through the use of the
iMedConsent advance directives module, hospitals can ensure that
patients who do not check-in with these documents have the ability to
create them prior to undergoing a major treatment or procedure. The proxy directive , generally a Durable Power of
Attorney for Health Care (DPAHC), allows for the designation of a
surrogate medical decision maker of the patient's choosing. iMedConsent
also includes patient education documents for thousands of diagnoses
and treatments, as well as an extensive image gallery that allows the
physician to annotate images and simplify complex topics for the
patient.

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The Memorial Hospital at Easton and Dorchester General Hospital in
Cambridge are private, not-for-profit hospitals with a combined 236
licensed beds offering a complete range of inpatient and outpatient
services to over 100,000 people throughout the Mid-Shore of Maryland. The
application quickly produces procedure and treatment consent forms,
tailored to an individual patient's underlying diagnosis, that are
drawn from a comprehensive library of consent documents.

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"We are very happy to have a relationship with Aetna," said Deidra
Bell, senior vice president and chief financial officer for Shore
Health System . "We have been committed to providing access to care for
our communities, and the agreement with Aetna expands our ability to
do that. Aetna provides easy
access to cost-effective health care through a nationwide network of
more than 655,000 health care professionals, including over 390,000
primary care and specialist doctors and 3,937 hospitals. This
surrogate makes care decisions for the patient in the event he or she
is incapacitated. "Supplying our hospital customers with access to an
advance directives module was a natural step, especially in light of
national efforts to better educate patients on the importance of
advance directives. The
company's iMedConsent(TM ) application is currently used by more than
10,000 physicians and in more than 100 hospitals nationwide .

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About TeamHealth
TeamHealth is the nation's largest provider of outsourced physician
staffing and administrative services to hospitals and other healthcare
providers.

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